comfortable walking 'with God. V 323 in forme ofana experimental! Syllogyfine, thus: a Qui fidei fua3 fenfum incorde Whofoeverbeleeves and repents, is the ChildeofGod : habcr;hic fch But I beleeveand repent, therefore Iam the ChildeofGod.: chrii +a Iefum in fe cites in6rof, Themajor, or fir flpropofition, is cleareand evident in the ;,, ep ;ß. ,. ad c,_ very letter, and by the immediate fenfe of Scripture. See "*t6 cap. ,;. loh. 61í"ís io. & z &c. v "'f' 3.. 3 45 3.393 But howdoe you know theminor, or fecond propofition be certainely fo ? By the certainty ofinternal! vifion, wherebyweas cleare- ly fee our faith, as our life, will, thought, knowledge, &c. as appeares in the forecited place of Awllin. In his opi- nion, Ifay, Faith isas viible to the internal! eye of a fan&i- fled minde, as isa mans life andwill : Nay, andwe are wont todifcerne with amore.eager eye and obfervation a Stran- ger, than an ordinary Domeflicke. Our life and will are in- bred, faith is adventitious. By the teflimonie of a renewed confcien¢i, e. confcience, which is asa thoufand witneffes. Now had I a prig fan£us,mprtte thoufand honeft witneffes at the Barre before an upright tofkienris do_ Judge, to prove my caufe, and j. flifie my right againfi the mefticam, & ye_ out-facings and perjuries of a Knight of the Pofl, as theya °ó fay, well knowne to be an infamous fligmaticall forgerer ptaga Gìaout. and murtherer; I would little doubt but to get the day. It is proportionably fo in this prefent point ; I meane, be- tweene myregenerate illightned confcienceand Satan.Nay, in thiscafe,fhould all theDevills in Hellfweare thecontrary, did carnali reafon, naturali diflrufl, orany other adverfary power, cavil! and contradi&withnever fuch irkefóme tedi.. outheffe; yet by the mercy ofGod, I will not wíthftand that heavenlylight (landing inmycon fcience like anarmed man : I will never take away mine innocencie frommy f /fe, Ins- till Idie. But howdoe you know, that you truelybeleeve? Wemay know, perhaps, that wee have fomekindeof faith, but not that we have the true lively faith, whichvÏf ferve the turtle for falvation. I anfwer : Saint Paul bids us trie, and prove our felves whether we have that Faith, by which Chrif't dwelletb inour Y hearts,
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